Meet the playmakers

Join us for London Design Festival at Young V&A in Bethnal Green, for a day of hands-on exploration of design focused on the young! We invite families to attend a range of free activities led by designers working in the realms of product, furniture and architecture. This will be an opportunity to see how the museum collaborates with designers and with our audiences to co-create meaningful experiences. The chosen designers utilise play and inclusivity in their design process and use their projects to highlight their values around sustainability, with projects using found, waste and re-usable materials. To celebrate London Design Festival, Young V&A will host a hands-on cardboard creation activities with Studiomama, play with U-Build’s modular construction kit, launch a set of Tactile Stools by Max Lamb and take part in a sensory design workshop alongside a chance to explore a new range of flatpack furniture from the same studio. Tactile Stools by Max Lamb: Young V&A will launch a set of tactile stools created by experimental designer Max Lamb. The four stools, each made from a different core material, offer a sensory hands-on experience allowing visitors to engage with making processes. Find the stools in ‘The Factory’ in Young V&A’s Design Gallery. www.maxlamb.org Sensory Design Workshop: Explore our tactile library of objects and join us for an open-ended explorative workshop that inspired Max Lamb’s ‘Tactile Stools’ Supported by a visual step-by-step explanation, you’ll assemble objects with a focus on the senses. Find this workshop in ‘Open Studio’ in Young V&A’s Design Gallery. SRM Plastic Children’s Chair by Max Lamb: Meet designer Max Lamb and discover how he created a new flat-pack children’s chair made from recycled plastic toys, cars and racetracks. Visitors can assemble and disassemble the chairs, giving them insight into design choices around materials, processes, textures and forms. Find this workshop in ‘Open Studio’ in Young V&A’s Design Gallery. Cardboard Creations by STUDIOMAMA: Join Studiomama to see live making that explores the creative possibilities of cardboard and a chance to get involved in some hands-on activity at Young V&A, led by designers Nina Tolstrup and Jack Mama, participants will transform this everyday material into imaginative objects and structures. Find this activity in Young V&A’s Town Square. www.studiomama.com IG: @_studiomama A Folly for Thought by U-BUILD: A Folly for Thought will be an opportunity to design and build a space for play using modular U-Build boxes constructed by you! Learn how to use tools and watch a 3D folly unfold and change over the day as families add to the installation. Find this event in Young V&A’s Town Square. www.u-build.org IG: @ubuild